Northern Portugal

Viana do Castelo

Casa do Chá in Porto

Tasting Portwine in Vila Nova da Gaia

Galicia

Short Trip to northern Spain and Portugal in June, these are a couple from Galicia.
This mother and her toddler were shockingly color coordinated- on a nice evening on Praza da Constitucío in Vigo.

A hórreo gallego, a typical granary found in almost every backyard in rural Galicia, this one was rather atypically by the hotel pool.

Impressive Faro de Vilán on Costa da Morte, which apparently is already in A Coruña.

Slowly making my way to Santiago, where it´s great fun to watch pilgrims arrive at the cathedral and to wander around the old town.

Brazzeltag 2016

Sketching at Technikmuseum Speyer with Birgit, Jörg & Clara back in May.

Rüsselsheim

Going through the sketchbooks of the past months and fondly remembering visiting Rüsselsheim. The town is known for the Opel factory, which dates back to 1862 and produced sewing machines and bicycles before switching to cars some years later.
Another interesting trip with Urban Sketchers Rheinmain.

Chicken & Cars

 A curious mix of subjects in my sketchbook lately.

The chicken were sketched at a poultry fair in Ellershausen. We went just to watch, mainly the day old chicks, but somehow we ended up with a car filled with chirping paper boxes. Apparently two Zwergwyandotten could not be left behind, and neither could some day old chicks.

Then  i sketched some cars at PS Speicher in Einbeck, a newly opened transport museum. It has as great collection of european microcars from the 1950s and 1960s i hadn´t seen before.

Robina

I hadn´t done any nude drawing in ages, but enjoyed it lots. It´s always a bit frustrating when the best drawing of a three hour session is thast second six minute pose! But still, i´ll try again soon.

Wiesbaden in monochrom

To sketch outside my comfort zone is something i like. So when i forgot my watercolour box  last Saturday to meet with Urban Sketchers Rheinmain, it turned out to be a blessing. Sketching in  ballpoint pen is something i used to do a lot more, and i enjoy these simple sketches.

Trinkhalle Fein

Darmstadt

Like every month, we met up with Urban Sketchers Rheinmain. In February, we gathered at Landesmuseum to draw exhibits. After the museum closed, we sketched a typical Darmstadt backyard wit 1950s architecture. Then we continued on to the Krone, a badly lit pub and finished our sketching day with some astonishisngly cheap beer..

St. Stephan

On a rather warm Sunday in February, i rode my bike to a suburb of Mainz, Gonsenheim and stopped to sketch glimpses of the church towers. Usually one can barely see the church at all, because all the building have been constructed very close by. But that time, a garage had been demolished, thus offering new views.